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According to Wikipedia , David Michael Benjamin Denison is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language. Biography He was educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, completing the latter tripos with an upper second-class degree in 1973. He earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford on "Aspects of the History of English Group-Verbs, with Particular Attention to the Syntax of the Ormulum". He was Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester from 2008. Since March 2015 he has been Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics. He is a past president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English .
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1990 2000 2010 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 Published Works English historical syntax : verbal constructions (1994) English Historical Syntax (1993) Fuzzy grammar: A reader (2004) (73)Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves (2003) Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System (2006) Gradience and linguistic change (2001) Why Old English had no prepositional passive (1985) Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession (2013) The origins of periphrastic DO: Ellegård and Visser reconsidered (1985) (44)Relative complexity in scientific discourse (2012) The language of the Southey–Coleridge Circle (2000) A corpus of late Modern English prose (1994) (36)Retrieving relatives from historical data (2012) The origins of completive _up_ in English (1985) (33)The real distribution of the English "group genitive" (2010) Category change in English with and without structural change (2010) Defining Relatives (2013) A History of the English Language: Acknowledgements (2006) Aspects of the history of English group-verbs: With particular attention to the syntax of the _Ormulum_ (1981) (24)The great regression: genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts (2013) (23)Generative theory and corpus studies : a dialogue from 10 ICEHL (2000) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora (2007) AUXILIARY + IMPERSONAL IN OLD ENGLISH (1989) The Old English impersonals revived (1990) On word order in Old English (1986) (16)Combining English auxiliaries. (2000) Counterfactual may have (1992) Better as a verb. (2010) A Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose (2007) Which comes first in the double object construction? (2015) Parts of speech: Solid citizens or slippery customers? (2013) Syntactic surprises in some English letters: The underlying progress of the language (2007) Playing tag with category boundaries (2007) (10)This won't take long (2014) (9)Reinforcing adjectives: a cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalization (2005) (8)Some observations on being teaching (1985) Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow: the Dance of Language Change (1999) (8)Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge: Structural factors (2013) (7)Some recent changes in the English verb (1993) (7)Expression of possession in English (2013) The construction of SKT (2011) (6)Do grammars change when they leak (2004) Fuzzy Grammar (2010) (5)A History of the English Language: Preface (2006) ARCHER 3.2. A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (2013) (5)The case of the unmarked pronoun (1996) The Syntactic and Stylistic Development of the Infinitive in Middle English. By Kazumi Manabe (1991) Ambiguity and vagueness in historical change (2014) Is the English possessive 's truly a right edge phenomenon? (2007) (3)Analysing Older English (2014) (3)A History of the English Language: Overview (2006) The Information Present: Present Tense for Communication in the Past (1992) Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation disputes (2011) (2)Which comes first in the double object construction? Diachronic and dialectal variation (2014) (2)Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long?: Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long (2018) OnGet it over with (1984) A Corpus of Late 18c Prose (2007) (2)The Nature of Grammatical Categories and Their Representation (2004) (2)On the history of English (and) word classes (2012) (2)Image to Text: Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750-c.1820) (2016) (1)Expression of possession: Structural factors (2009) (1)A History of the English Language: References (2006) Category change in late Modern English (2006) (1)A new class of verbs taking that-clause complements (2009) (1)CLUES TO LANGUAGE CHANGE FROM NON-STANDARD ENGLISH (2008) English word classes: Categories and their limits (2017) (1)Non-inflecting verbs in Modern English (2012) (1)Poss-s vs poss-of revisited (2011) (1)Degemination in English, with special reference to the Middle English period (2011) On _get it over with_ (1984) (1)Expression of possession (2012) (1)The origins of periphrastic Do (1985) 5 Expression of possession * (2012) (0)REVIEWS (2007) Origins of periphrastic do (2014) A History of the English Language: Further reading (2006) NJL volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2015) Appreciation of Richard Hogg (With David Denison.) (2007) (0)Modals and related auxiliaries (2014) so,Norms and conventions in the history of English offers thought-provoking approaches (2021) (0)Dative Movement and the indirect passive (2014) A note on T/D deletion (1988) (0)The prepositional passive (2014) Richard Hogg, 20 May 1944 – 6 September 2007 (2007) David Crystal, The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+489. (1997) Analysing Older English: Introduction to Part V (2011) That-clauses as complements of verbs or nouns (2018) The of the in collaboration with Cambridge Grammar English Language Rodney Huddleston (2002) (0)Analysing Older English: References (2011) 1.2. Form and function (2000) What's wrong with possessive 's? (2008) (0)Jean Aitchison, Language change: progress or decay? (Fontana Linguistics.) London: Fontana, 1981. Pp. 266. (1983) Underspecified categories, supercategories, or no categories? (2016) (0)SOME UNFITNESS CASE HISTORIES (2001) (0)ELL volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2009) 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity (2000) Introduction to Part IV (2011) Word classes in the history of English (2017) 18 Inflectional morphology and related matters ( (2004) (0)Arguing with determination: Class conflict in English nominals (2003) (0)Why would anyone take long (2016) (0)Introduction to Part I: Metrics and onomastics in older English (2012) (0)VOSI and V+I (control verbs) (2014) Introduction to Part V: Syntax in older English (2012) (0)Why would anybody take long (2014) (0)English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions (1997) Analysing Older English: Syntax in older English (2011) SOME CONSIDERATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (2007) (0)Ambiguity and vagueness in English: speakers vs. linguists (2014) (0)Chapter 13. Explaining explanatory so (2020) II English Language (1987) Dieter Kastovsky (ed.), Historical English syntax . (Topics in English Linguistics, 2.) Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. Pp. viii + 510. (1992) Multiple Auxiliaries, Regulation of do (2014) Pushing the boundaries of word classes (2015) (0)Defining relatives 6Mar2013 (2013) (0)Retrieving relatives from historical data 1 2 (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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